Category Archives: Healthcare Software Testing

Testing Healthcare Software – Medication Dispensing Software

As part of our healthcare software testing practice, we have been working on a medication dispensing system. Medication Dispensing software, part of a Medication Management system, allows pharmacy inventory to be managed from its arrival in the pharmacy to dispensed medications, implementing multiple bar code checks for accuracy. It works throughout the facility and sometimes crosses multiple hospitals. Using this type of application, technicians can quickly and securely pick from the carousel and other devices.
Monitoring and dispensing medications is highly regulated and requires a complex and highly secure system. Business rules and features are quite complex, so testers need to prioritize the features and priorities. In our testing experience, we found the following top 4 items to prioritize our testing efforts. More

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Developing meaningful Usability and User Experience (UX) measurements for Mobile applications

May 31 we held a webinar with Duke Yetter, the CEO of Mobile Medsoft and our own Phil Lew, in which they discussed setting up the right usability and UX measurements for testing mobile healthcare applications. It was a very … More

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Mobile Testing – Usability and User Experience Measurement

If your users cannot figure out your application in less than 30 seconds they’re gone. The UX and usability of your applications are their competitive advantage. Join us at our webinar May 31 11:00 AM Eastern UX and Usability Expert … More

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Data Warehouse Testing Quick Reference

A Data Warehouse (DW) stores data where it can be analyzed, archived, and secured. DW products are used to manage large amounts of data (now recently called Big Data) and make it easy for users to make business decisions. With mobile devices, social networks, and web-based software collecting so much data, many organizations are beginning to sell not only the data itself, but analyzed or scrubbed and filtered in some way. We’ve recently worked on testing some data warehouse projects and wanted to share a few quick QA tips specific to this domain… More

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Testing For Healthcare Software – Pharmacy Management Software

We have been testing a pharmacy management software system for years and wanted to share a few notes from our testing experience during that time. More

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Healthcare Software Testing – Best Practices for Testing Pharmacy Management Software

We’ve been testing healthcare software for several years and in particular, pharmacy management software. Testing healthcare software products definitely requires a different angle, so I thought I’d share some of our expertise and experience. Roles and workflows. Physicians, pharmacists, nurses, … More

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Healthcare Software Testing Strategies for HIPAA Compliance

When testing healthcare applications, there are many government regulations that the tester must be aware of. These regulations are automatically a part of any requirements, even if not explicitly stated. These regulations will be the same for all healthcare applications so it is incumbent for any testing organization to not only thoroughly understand these regulations, but also ensure that the test strategy and test plan accommodates them. For the health care industry in the United States, the main law for these regulations is HIPAA. More

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